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Michael Simkins quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past.”
-- Michael Simkins

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“The sight of one old man kneeling on all fours in front of me assembling a picnic table was enough to put all thoughts of lunch out of my head, possibly for life.”
-- Michael Simkins

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“The Western world, and the UK in particular, is drowning in a sea of its own blubber.”
-- Michael Simkins

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“Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.”
“In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.”
“I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.”
“I didn't think about anything past tomorrow because anything past tomorrow was just like cloud busting - it depended soley on the person looking at the clouds and it could rain any minute”
“I love 'Breathless,' and 'Paris, Texas,' and 'Badlands.' I was obsessed with those films in my teens. I remember watching 'Badlands' and being amazed that there were these scenes in which nobody said anything and the silence told the whole story.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There's enough people that do unfunny music. I'll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.”
“Everyone talks about Spanish influences, but where is it?...Tell me 10 great Spanish restaurants in London....You canâ€™t give me the addresses. Nor in Paris.”
“For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams. In my little room at home, I felt that I was somewhere else. In Paris, for instance.”
“[Paris] is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin.”
“I hear you're losing weight again, Mary Jane. Do you ever wonder who you're losing it for?”

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